LG 32GK850G and 2080 Ti

CharlePL

CharlePL

CharlePL

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I was almost ready to buy this LG monitor but then a thought crossed my mind.. if RT is going to be 1080p most probably at 60 fps, how would that look on this monster?
 
If you're asking how Full HD looks on this monitor, note that no G-SYNC monitors includes interpolation (scaling) capability over DP. So it will be handled by the GPU and will look the same as any other monitor of the size and resolution displaying 1920 x 1080 with GPU scaling active. It's pretty soft, blurry and generally unpleasant. Further details in the interpolation and upscaling section of my review on pcmonitors.info. If you're using HDMI then things are slightly better as the monitor uses interpolation, although it's not great. I assure you, you are much better off running this at its native 2560 x 1440 and turning Ray Tracing off. This isn't the graphics card section which might be why you didn't get a response, but this isn't the kind of sacrifice you want to make for some extra shininess.
 
Many thanks for your answer. I am sure I will be at least 80% on 1440p resolution but if I am going to spend such stupid amount of money on RT card I think it would be worth to use RT feature, at least on single player games. Is Dell S2716DG a good alternative to LG?
 
Well it's another G-SYNC monitor so the above applies. I'm not sure how lowering the resolution to Full HD is ever an acceptable compromise to make just so you can use Ray Tracing.
 
Marginally. But it depends on your viewing distance as well. Still, resolution is the very last thing you should consider reducing. And to sacrifice the superior colour reproduction and contrast of the LG for the Dell? Makes no sense. If you want to use use RT then sacrifice some other graphics options first, before touching resolution. And I think you're jumping the gun a bit on expected performance. Don't make badly thought-out contingencies because of hearsay.
 
I don't expect RTX peformance to be THAT bad at 1440p... not to the point it's unplayable and we feel forced to downscale to 1080p. Details may need to be turned down a bit, and it will also probably take a while for devs to get their heads around the new tech and optimise for it, plus obviously drivers need to mature. I'm sure I read somewhere they already have examples running around 30FPS @ 4K... which isn't great, but it's early days of course and clearly room for improvement there. Just think though, most people who are buying a 2080Ti will not be gaming at 1080p anymore... they will have 1440p/ultrawide or 4K monitors and the last thing they want to be forced in to is having to downscale their expensive monitors to run 1080p after spending £1200 on a GPU lol! As mentioned, it will look soft and ray tracing isn't going to make that magically acceptable.
 
I dont see the point of that one, u can barely hit 240 on 1080p so 1440p will be pretty meaningless.
Also costs 4x more then a 240hz 1080p screen.
I am trying to decide if I should keep my aw2518HF or the PG278Q they are both great, and yet so different.
 
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